Politicians always think they know what people feel. It's a fallacy, because there is no such thing as 'the people.' It is a discursive device for summoning the people that you want. You're constructing the people, you're not reflecting the… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did. — Stuart Hall Copy Share
People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them. — Stuart Hall Copy Share
The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
The DuBois Institute in the heart of Harvard is an extremely important political intervention and I'm delighted to be invited to speak here. — Stuart Hall Copy Share
Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images.… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
“Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system. — Stuart Hall Copy Share
Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted. — Stuart Hall Copy Share
I have a funny relationship to the British working class movement... I'm in it, but not culturally of it... I was aware that I'd… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
